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[dEBRUYNE]

Without a reliable and secure mobile wallet app, Monero will continue to stagnate. I hope it's the next one up the devs' collective sleeve...for real this time.

The MyMonero desktop and mobile apps are to be released soon^tm:

https://github.com/mymonero/mymonero-app-js

Thanks for the info. However, there's that unsettling "privacy trade-off" as it's still (someone else's) server-based. What's the difference between it and the MyMonero web wallet? Does the Android version at least offer the option to connect to a remote node that the user has control over? Otherwise, it defeats the whole privacy mantra that Monero strives for.

Will the Android version be made available on an alternative distribution platform/repository (other than Play) like F-Droid or as a downloadable APK in accordance with Monero's privacy ethos?

- There will be standalone (desktop) apps as well. Thus, you will be able to use the MyMonero app on any conventional system and on mobile. The difference is basically that desktop apps are arguably more secure than webwallets, i.e., they pose less risk for users simply because there are less attack vectors. I am not entirely sure if it will have an option to connect to a remote node under your control. To clarify, I'd advise to ask this in #mymonero (freenode on IRC). Also note that some people / users rather trade off some convenience for privacy.

- Also not entirely sure, but I think it'll be the latter.

I see. Thanks for elaborating. I tried the freenode/IRC thing a few years ago but unfortunately, I struggled in it. The forum format such as this one here is much easier for me to handle and deal with.

Try the webchat if you simply want to join a channel temporary:

https://webchat.freenode.net/

Pick a nickname and set the channel to #mymonero.

[dEBRUYNE]

Using GUI, what's the procedure to create a cold wallet on an offline machine and subsequently set up its watch-only GUI counterpart on an online machine? I just wanna be sure that I don't screw up.

If you want to create an offline (i.e. cold) (paper) wallet, you can follow one of these guides:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/6b2od3/a_stepbystep_guide_for_cold_storage_and_offline/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5limu9/taushet_usb_monero_cold_wallet_generator_release/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/48cgmd/an_extensive_guide_for_securely_generating_an/

If you want to use the GUI you likely need to make some tweaks to the guides, but those will be fairly trivial. In addition, if you get stuck somewhere and need help, feel free to PM me.

Thanks for the links. The concise procedure quoted by bitebits (from saddambitcoin) above seems to be fine though. The only hitch is that the GUI window does not scale properly within a netbook's (setting it up as the cold/offline device) 1024 x 600 screen resolution. The GUI window fills the screen but the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and rendered inaccessible as the GUI window cannot be moved around nor does it allow scrolling (not able to sign a transaction file as a consequence). Has this been reported before? Any solution?  Is this something that can be fixed in future releases?

Sounds like one of those edge case bugs. Could you open a new issue on Github with your issue, system specifications, and exact operating system?

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core/issues

Hopefully one of the GUI devs will fix it for a future release

[birr]

The only hitch is that the GUI window does not scale properly within a netbook's (setting it up as the cold/offline device) 1024 x 600 screen resolution. The GUI window fills the screen but the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and rendered inaccessible as the GUI window cannot be moved around nor does it allow scrolling

Try the control/minus key combination that shrinks the screen image.

[visdude]

The only hitch is that the GUI window does not scale properly within a netbook's (setting it up as the cold/offline device) 1024 x 600 screen resolution. The GUI window fills the screen but the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and rendered inaccessible as the GUI window cannot be moved around nor does it allow scrolling

Try the control/minus key combination that shrinks the screen image.

It doesn't work. Even if it does work and shrink the size of the GUI window, it'll just cut off a lot more of it and therefore rendering more GUI window features/buttons/real estate inaccessible. The issue is that it doesn't allow scrolling when any part of the window is not visible/cut off. This is true on both Windows 7 x64 and Linux Mint 18.1 x64 on the same netbook.

[Drhiggins]

Long time no post on this board.

Trying to restore an old wallet for a friend of of mine that neglected to ever update the daemon as updates were released.  The version of monerod is so old it used the original 24 word mnemonic seed instead of the 25 word seed.    I have run the monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet  command and named the new wallet but when I put in the 24 word  mnemonic seed to restore I get:

Error: Electrum-style word list failed verification.

I do have her old .key & .address files from the old wallet but that is all I have besides the 24 seed words.

So anyone know how to restore from such an old mnemonic seed? 

[jwinterm]

Long time no post on this board.

Trying to restore an old wallet for a friend of of mine that neglected to ever update the daemon as updates were released.  The version of monerod is so old it used the original 24 word mnemonic seed instead of the 25 word seed.    I have run the monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet  command and named the new wallet but when I put in the 24 word  mnemonic seed to restore I get:

Error: Electrum-style word list failed verification.

I do have her old .key & .address files from the old wallet but that is all I have besides the 24 seed words.

So anyone know how to restore from such an old mnemonic seed? 

You can restore with just the .keys file - just start wallet and point it to keys file, assuming you know the password. There were issues with a couple of words list at some point a long time ago, but the coins should be recoverable in any event.

[phishead]

Long time no post on this board.

Trying to restore an old wallet for a friend of of mine that neglected to ever update the daemon as updates were released.  The version of monerod is so old it used the original 24 word mnemonic seed instead of the 25 word seed.    I have run the monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet  command and named the new wallet but when I put in the 24 word  mnemonic seed to restore I get:

Error: Electrum-style word list failed verification.

I do have her old .key & .address files from the old wallet but that is all I have besides the 24 seed words.

So anyone know how to restore from such an old mnemonic seed?  

I think there is a way to restore the wallet from using her private spend and view keys (?)... is that what you mean when you say you have her old .keys files on hand?

Good to see you back btw.

Edit: I think the command is something with --restore-private-key or something like that.

[Drhiggins]

Long time no post on this board.

Trying to restore an old wallet for a friend of of mine that neglected to ever update the daemon as updates were released.  The version of monerod is so old it used the original 24 word mnemonic seed instead of the 25 word seed.    I have run the monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet  command and named the new wallet but when I put in the 24 word  mnemonic seed to restore I get:

Error: Electrum-style word list failed verification.

I do have her old .key & .address files from the old wallet but that is all I have besides the 24 seed words.

So anyone know how to restore from such an old mnemonic seed?  

I think there is a way to restore the wallet from using her private spend and view keys (?)... is that what you mean when you say you have her old .keys files on hand?

Good to see you back btw.

Edit: I think the command is something with --restore-private-key or something like that.

I'll try that command but do the key files need to be in the directory?   Its good to be back, never went anywhere and I do still read on this forum just never post anymore. 

[jwinterm]

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I'll try that command but do the key files need to be in the directory?   Its good to be back, never went anywhere and I do still read on this forum just never post anymore. 

You don't need any special command to restore from a keys file, just "monero-wallet-cli --wallet-file keysfile.keys", but you need to know password. If you don't know password special command won't help.

I think this issue references the old English word list:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/commit/12fff108ea0d538478ccdba3e4e8052a32f15054

[Drhiggins]

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I'll try that command but do the key files need to be in the directory?   Its good to be back, never went anywhere and I do still read on this forum just never post anymore. 

You don't need any special command to restore from a keys file, just "monero-wallet-cli --wallet-file keysfile.keys", but you need to know password. If you don't know password special command won't help.

I think this issue references the old English word list:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/commit/12fff108ea0d538478ccdba3e4e8052a32f15054

Thanks for the input.  Got it restored!  Just waiting on the wallet to refresh at this point.  As always great community here since I first started in Monero back 2014.
   

[ozkraut]

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I'll try that command but do the key files need to be in the directory?   Its good to be back, never went anywhere and I do still read on this forum just never post anymore.  

You don't need any special command to restore from a keys file, just "monero-wallet-cli --wallet-file keysfile.keys", but you need to know password. If you don't know password special command won't help.

I think this issue references the old English word list:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/commit/12fff108ea0d538478ccdba3e4e8052a32f15054

Thanks for the input.  Got it restored!  Just waiting on the wallet to refresh at this point.  As always great community here since I first started in Monero back 2014.
  

In  case: just point at a remote node if you dont want to sync for ages. Pretty safe and good to go straight away


my last one looked like this as switches but you best have a look what nodes are good now

start cli with    --daemon-host nodeaddress

i used the moneroworld one

[Steal]

Icebreaker Stop to come to mess the forum digibyte because personally I am not fan of monero and I do not like it.
But I do not come to make jealousies like a child ...
I will come 4 times a day on the forum monero to invent problems like you made me.

[dEBRUYNE]

The only hitch is that the GUI window does not scale properly within a netbook's (setting it up as the cold/offline device) 1024 x 600 screen resolution. The GUI window fills the screen but the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and rendered inaccessible as the GUI window cannot be moved around nor does it allow scrolling

Try the control/minus key combination that shrinks the screen image.

It doesn't work. Even if it does work and shrink the size of the GUI window, it'll just cut off a lot more of it and therefore rendering more GUI window features/buttons/real estate inaccessible. The issue is that it doesn't allow scrolling when any part of the window is not visible/cut off. This is true on both Windows 7 x64 and Linux Mint 18.1 x64 on the same netbook.

Apparently your issue was already reported earlier and has been fixed in master, which means it will be fixed in the next release. See:

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core/issues/754

[saddambitcoin]

Trying to restore an old wallet for a friend of of mine that neglected to ever update the daemon as updates were released.  The version of monerod is so old it used the original 24 word mnemonic seed instead of the 25 word seed.    have besides the 24 seed words.
So anyone know how to restore from such an old mnemonic ?

Wtf guys. I thought all I need to recover my wallet was the seed. I don't saved any keyfiles.
Will the mnemonic seed be obsolete in a few years ?

This was only a problem for really early Monero wallets. I think the bug was fixed in late 2014 so anything after that is good. Even if they didn't have the keyfile they could restore the wallet if they used the older version of monero-wallet-cli (simplewallet).

[explorer]

Icebreaker Stop to come to mess the forum digibyte because personally I am not fan of monero and I do not like it.
But I do not come to make jealousies like a child ...
I will come 4 times a day on the forum monero to invent problems like you made me.

OOOHHH!!  That'll show him!   
Ignore is a feature on this forum.  Use it.

[Hueristic]

Icebreaker Stop to come to mess the forum digibyte because personally I am not fan of monero and I do not like it.
But I do not come to make jealousies like a child ...
I will come 4 times a day on the forum monero to invent problems like you made me.

OOOHHH!!  That'll show him!   
Ignore is a feature on this forum.  Use it.

I just did. Lol

[pönde]

I am mostly using monero-cli. But a question about safety of mymonero.com.

If I log in to mymonero.com from a linux computer which does not have any keylogger, which are the ways and probabilities that someone may steal xmr?

What are your safety recommedations when using mymonero.com?

[ozkraut]

I am mostly using monero-cli. But a question about safety of mymonero.com.

If I log in to mymonero.com from a linux computer which does not have any keylogger, which are the ways and probabilities that someone may steal xmr?

What are your safety recommedations when using mymonero.com?

It is reasonably safe as all keyrelated functions only run locally. But there is always a chance of mim attacks and other vulnerabilities you might have been, or will be ,exposed to. So unless you are very diligent on making sure you are not compromised : only for a small amount is the general recommendation. Like what you would lose if you lost your wallet. Your mileage may of course vary on what that may be (;-)

[pönde]

I am mostly using monero-cli. But a question about safety of mymonero.com.

If I log in to mymonero.com from a linux computer which does not have any keylogger, which are the ways and probabilities that someone may steal xmr?

What are your safety recommedations when using mymonero.com?

It is reasonably safe as all keyrelated functions only run locally. But there is always a chance of mim attacks and other vulnerabilities you might have been, or will be ,exposed to. So unless you are very diligent on making sure you are not compromised : only for a small amount is the general recommendation. Like what you would lose if you lost your wallet. Your mileage may of course vary on what that may be (;-)

The mim, the man in the middle attack is I guess not likely if my computer is not compromised? So if I restart my linux computer by live dvd there cannot be any malware keylogger or such. And that way the man in the middle attack is not really likely?